Avatar may be hurt by the curse of expectation, and it’s hard to keep the message that MOVIE MAKING HAS BEEN CHANGED FOREVER out of your mind once your butt is actually in a seat in front of the thing. The trailers keep telling us how nothing will ever be the same again, and we know the budget of the movie was anywhere from $200 million to $500 million, depending on what report you’re reading. Who knows how much R&D Cameron put into the technology behind the movie. Even the credits of the film are monstrous: after Industrial Light and Magic and Weta Digital were credited for the special effects, the long line of other effects houses that worked on the movie scrolled by. I lost count of how many different companies leveraged how many different forms of technology to get Avatar filmed. If you’re a fan of cinema, no matter how you feel about the trailer, you need to see this movie; it represents the absolute best that technology can give us in film—at least with an unlimited budget and a small city of geniuses working across a decade to bring it to life. Does it have a heart?… Read full this story
- Book review: Get to know the Virgin Mary in ‘A Sky Full of Stars’
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
- 3D printing isn’t as green as you think
- Her Story
- Senators to review peace situation in Mindanao before deciding on Martial Law extension
- MoviePass says you'll be able to see IMAX movies with your subscription by Labor Day (HMNY)
- Imax plans 14 new laser theatres in important Chinese market
- 'Liberator' And 3D Printed Guns Are Unconstitutional, Gun Regulation Is Not
- Movie review: 'Hotel Artemis' tries to be Tarantino
- Movie review: 'Searching' is terrifying for parents
Avatar reviewed in 3D, on IMAX: you know the story; go anyway have 295 words, post on arstechnica.com at December 18, 2009. This is cached page on Vietnam Colors. If you want remove this page, please contact us.